![]() ![]() ![]() She will also bestow one, too, on Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, the Bangladeshi publisher of remarkable courage known as Tutul, who last year survived, in his Dhaka office, a machete-and-gun attack by Islamic extremists. We are speaking at the British Library, where, later that day, the 76-year-old author will receive a different award: the English PEN Pinter prize. If Atwood herself occasionally checks her phone for missed calls from Stockholm on such mornings, she does not admit to it in any case, fellow Canadian Alice Munro’s victory in 2013, commemorated with a generous tribute by Atwood in this paper, will have queered that particular pitch for some years to come. “For what?” she says, aspirating the word “what” with devastating effect. ![]()
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